Waiting another day for the Melky Cabrera farewell news

Manager Bruce Bochy reiterated the Melky Cabrera announcement will come Thursday, so those it’s-official-Giants-cut-ties-with-Melky stories will have to wait a day.

Bochy gave hints Nos. 78 and 79 that Cabrera won’t be back.

“We have to think about what’s best for the club. There are guys that are ready and have been playing, and that comes into it.”

And . . .

“Again, right now, we’re going to the playoffs. We’re going to the first round. He’s not a part of that. This is why it’s kind of been on the back burner, to be honest, for me.”

Cabrera’s 50-game PED suspension runs five games into the postseason, so he’d be ineligible for the best-of-five Division Series. Not that it’s a factor. It has been reported a bunch of times, including by Henry Schulman (again) on Tuesday, that the Giants are turning the page.

A couple of other items.

Matt Cain pitches tonight, and the Giants list Barry Zito for Thursday, Ryan Vogelsong for Friday and Madison Bumgarner for Saturday. Sunday, they’ve got “TBA,” and that’s Tim Lincecum’s slot. The brain trust is working on tweaking the rotation in preparation for the playoffs.

With 99 RBIs, Buster Posey needs one more to become the third Giants catcher since 1900 with 100 in a season. The others were Walker Cooper (122 in 1947) and Dick Dietz (107 in 1970). We’re talking about catching as a primary position. Remember, many of Posey’s RBIs came as a non-catcher.